Over the years I’ve been asked for my thoughts on what have popularly become known as “Ghost Lights.” Well, I can say for sure I’ve heard all sorts of theories for what they might really be. Those theories include some kind of intelligent ball of energy, the souls of the dead (people and animals), shapeshifting aliens, ball lightning, and entry points to other dimensions. Of course, there may be numerous other theories, too, but these are most definitely ones that I often hear about. I can’t say, at all, that I’m an expert in this field; however, I do have an interest in the subject. Chiefly because I had my very own encounter back in the summer of 2005. It wasn’t anything particularly spectacular, but it did make me realize this was a real phenomenon. With that said, I’ll share it with you now – my one and only encounter with a Ghost Light. The location was the Big Thicket, Texas – a large, forested area in east Texas that has a long history of having Ghost Light
While An Tain Arts Centre can t invite audiences inside for live performances, director Paul Hayes is working hard to ensure that they are reaching out to audiences of all ages, providing entertainment through the darkest days of winter.
He has enlisted the well known Dundalk actor Paudie Breen, who would normally be busy with panto rehearsals this time of year, to perform stories from the collection of the National Folklore Archive.
Paudie is reading these stories live on An Tain Arts Centre s Facebook page at 7pm every evening until Saturday, December 19.
The stories are linked to the visual arts project Ghost Light: Scéalta ón Lú Trí Sholas (stories of Louth through light) which runs from Sunday December 20 to Sunday January 10.
After more than three decades of presenting a theatrical production of âA Christmas Carol,â Great Lakes Theater has canceled this yearâs version of the Northeast Ohio tradition, obviously due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
âItâs brutal for us as a company because these holiday shows become really important to the bottom line of our budget,â Great Lakes Theater Producing Artistic Director Charles Fee said. âLosing âA Christmas Carolâ for us is harder than losing anything else in our season from a financial standpoint.
âFrom an artistic standpoint, and from engaging our community, the long history of this piece as our holiday offering is really deeply important. It brings in an audience every single year thatâs pretty much new to Great Lakes Theater. Itâs our largest and broadest audience base of the year.â
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FRAMINGHAM “What movie would you turn into a musical if you had the opportunity?” Ratatouille. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. Toy Story. One suggestion Pretty Woman made 33-year-old Christopher Brindley pause.
“It
is a musical, I saw it it’s terrible, it’s awful. It’s one of the worst musicals I’ve ever seen,” he said. “And they didn’t even have the song ‘Pretty Woman’ in it, which is the whole point, right?”
On a recent morning, the head of the Fine and Performing Arts Department was in his Framingham High School office, launching his Musical Theater class with that question to students. When he s remote teaching, he says he s like a game show host. His job is to keep them invested in the class and in coming back, said Brindley.